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Ok, I lost access to LinkedIn… Now what?

In case you missed it,

​Help me escape from LinkedIn jail !​

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I asked a big LinkedIn creator (Trevor Houston) who escaped LinkedIn jail twice,

How can I get back access to my account?

He said: “Ask your community to make a post on how you contributed to their lives, and then share those posts with LinkedIn Customer Support to prove your professionalism and authority.”

So basically just post a version of this, and share it with me via email.

FYI: I just updated the images that you can use in the post, since LI is blocking the main one.

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This is the time where all my efforts in building a community of misfits is going to be questioned.

Do my people have my back?

Or is this a hard lesson to swallow.

Only time can tell.

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(Shoutout to the few folks who care: Rashon, Ziz, Melanie, Matt, Lonica, Lorri, Soo Young, Imed, and Jordan)

So what’s the new plan, Amine?

How are you going to run your business moving forward?

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As my friend Imed Djabi at Framer WME told me:

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“Perhaps this is a sign from God to focus on getting back to the drawing board.

Was your LinkedIn profile generating you any income?

If the answer is no, It’s ok if you don’t get it back, to be honest…”

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And this hits hard.

LinkedIn was never a good, sustainable revenue generating source for me.

It was too unpredictable.

I was just being “present”.

And when I started being “salesy” aka actively prospecting, my account was suspended.

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So here’s the new 3-step plan (a peak into my brain).

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A) CREATION = SERVICE

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1) Focus on my strengths (skills): Writing, Direct Response Marketing, Community Building

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I’m comfortable offering a copywriting service that uses direct response marketing skills to persuade people to buy, and then take them from buyers to true fans with a community model (see offer below).

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2) ICP (niche audience that buys): Creator Entrepreneurs

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Why?

  • Already had some leads and clients within this niche
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  • I’m a creator entrepreneur myself
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  • They have a strong, solid brand — Enough traffic
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  • No funnel system — Easily help them make more money
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  • No proper info-product email launch campaign
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  • No email setup — automated flywheel that frees their time
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  • Very easy to target (outreach) — YouTube, Convertkit recommendations, Facebook Ads library, Skool, Instagram, Twitter

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3) Offer: 5 Money-Printing, “Would Be Stupid To Say No To”, Cash Flow Generating Emails 💵

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5 Money-Printing, “Would Be Stupid To Say No To”, Cash Flow Generating Emails 💵

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→ Learn Earn more from here (50% discount) ←

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B) ATTENTION = MARKETING

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  • Email is the new social — Make email my main social media app ⇒ 3 emails a day (different segments)
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  • Document everything → Be the business experiment → Become the marketing — Share everything with you guys — Nothing held back
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  • SEO-based niche content on Medium, Reddit, YouTube (90-day challenge)
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  • Reach out to newsletter creators for email list growth (partnership & collaboration) — The journey from 1k → 10k email subscribers​
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  • Contribute to the creator economy/community through Convertkit (Soon to be Kit)​

​Come join me on Twitter​

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C) CONVERSION = CONVERSATION
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  • Inbound Funnel: The personal Brand MBA: The business of personal branding — Free 5-day Educational Email Course (EEC).
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  • Outbound system (10 – 30 / day): Pay for a scraper tool or do a manual 100 dream client direct outreach (automated and personalized) + document every contact in Notion.
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  • Create personalized sales email/copy templates for potential clients and send it to them for free — Free Work = Pre Work
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  • Email sales funnel attached to the back end of the EEC
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  • Make one offer a day (in all my email newsletters), until the one clicks
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  • Landing page sales letters — Optimize my copy
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  • Future investment thoughts: Appointment setters (pay per result), VA’s, and copywriters.

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That’s my plan!

Use it,

Steal it.

But it will be worth nothing without execution.

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So from now on, upward…

I’ll be sharing every struggle with you.

Every opportunity with you.

Thus,

Making myself an experiment.

So that you can learn with me.

So that you can ride with me.

So that you can succeed with me.

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Till next time,

peace out maa friend 🙂